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As terrible as the App Store situation is today, it will get better starting in June/July. I have a hunch that Apple is going to solve this problem with parent
by tophat02 17y ago
As terrible as the App Store situation is today, it will get better starting in June/July. I have a hunch that Apple is going to solve this problem with parental controls.
- KC8ZKF 17y agoI don't think that will solve the problem. Why should a book reader with access to Project Gutenberg carry the burden of an adults-only application? And doesn't that kind of prudery render the explicit tag meaningless to parents? The only thing it does is covers Apple's ass^Wbackside.
- rcoder 17y agoRepeat after me: censor-ware does not work. It's like spam -- since you can't even define what constitutes offensive content in a consistent, formal way, how in the hell can you expect any system (human or algorithmic) to make an effective, fair determination about what goes in which bucket? Apple does a great job of design, usability, hardware hacking, and recently they've even been pretty effective at getting content owners to move in the direction of reasonable licensing terms for digital distribution. However, they do not have magic pixie dust which makes them immune to brain-dead "content filtering" algorithms, whether human-mediated or not.